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Hamerton, Philip Gilbert
National characteristics, English; National characteristics, French
Revolutions in France and England, misleading terms “Republic” and
“Monarchy,” 103;
abolition of absolutism similar in both countries, 104;
want of English sympathy for the growth of liberty in France, _ib._;
beginning of democracy in France, 105;
sovereignty of the people, _ib._;
resemblances between the two revolutions, 106;
sovereignty of the National Assembly and House of Commons, 107;
aristocratic republic in England, 108;
irregular progress of the democracy in France, 109;
absence of a written constitution in England, 109, 110;
cabinet government in England copied by France, 110;
the misleading use in France of American terms, “Republic,”
“President,” “Senate,” 111;
peaceful changes, _ib._
Reynolds, Sir Joshua, his writings on art appreciated in France, 408;
his paintings depreciated as imitations, 410
Rhyme in poetry, difficulties of pronunciation, 23
Ritualism in England promoted by formalism, 175
Rothschild, Baron, abundance of game in his preserves at Ferrières,
11 _note_
Rouen, cultivation of the Fine Arts inferior to that in Manchester
or Liverpool, 34
Royalist sentiment extinct in France, 54, 135
Rural and urban life in France and England, 34
Ruskin, Mr., causes of his success, an art teacher to the English, 37;
his diatribe against railways, 205;
his influence, 400;
no readers in France, 408;
depreciates French art, 413
Russian novels, demand for in France, 409
S
Sabbath. See Sunday
Sabbatarianism of the Scotch Lowlanders, 425
Sarcey, F., his evidence respecting the neglect of English and
German in France, 21
_Saturday Review_, remarks on education in France, 218
Science, superseding literature, 28;
its place in secondary education in France, 29
Science and Art Department in England, 32
Scotland. See _Highlanders_ and _Lowlanders_
Scotland, English ignorance of, 81;
French confusion of Highlanders and Lowlanders, 425
Scott, Sir Walter, a keen sportsman, 3;
his denial of the authorship of Waverley novels, 196;
ignorance of French, 430
Seeley, Professor, proposals as regards Latin and Greek, 18
Seminaries, French ecclesiastical, their effect on pupils, 44
Sentiment, natural to the French, but ridiculous to the English, 47;
filial affection, _ib._;
friendship, 48;
sympathy, 49;
degrees of relationship, _ib._;
funerals, _ib._;
neglected tombs, _ib._;
cultured by the French, 50;
in the English clergy, 51;
English tenderness for animals, 52;
French hardness, 53;
reverence, _ib._;
royalist, absent in France, 54
Servants, domestic, in France and England, 293
Sisters, Catholic working Orders, their devotion, 161;
activity and cheerfulness, 162;
example of an Anglican saint, 163;
more common in France than in England, 164
Shadwell, Vice-Chancellor, family swimming in the Thames, 10
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